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Annual Report 2015
Institute of Latin American Studies
Institute of Latin American StudiesUniversitetsvägen 10 B, 106 91 Stockholm , Swedentel: +46 8 16 2882 (secr.) + 46 8 16 2887 (libr.)[email protected]
Via Balcon Pedestrian Path in La Paz, Bolivia
Annual Report 2015
Institute of Latin American Studies
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Contents
Preface
Board and staff
Research activities
Research projects
Research seminars
Other research activities
Educational activities
Latin American Studies I (30 credits)
Latin American Studies II (30 credits)
Latin American Studies, Bachelor’s course (30 credits)
Bachelor Program in Latin American Studies with Specialization in
Spanish or Portuguese (180 credits)
Latin American Studies, Master Program (120 credits)
Other teaching activities
The Library of the Institute of Latin American Studies
Public activities
Public seminars
Research contacts, membership of academic associations
Participation in workshops, conferences and other events
Publications
Financial Report
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The Institute of Latin American Studies (LAI) is a research institute oriented towards
investigation related to Latin America within the social sciences. The institute also
disseminates information on current social conditions across the region, and provides
teachers to university courses, primarily in Latin America studies. It also conducts a wide
range of bibliographical and documentation activities.
The Institute was founded in 1951 as part of Stockholm School of Economics. In 1969, it
became an autonomous institute charged with promoting Latin America studies in Sweden in
general. Eight years later it was incorporated into Stockholm University.
In 2000 the Institute became part of the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin
American Studies, and in 2013 it was merged into the new Department of Romance Studies
and Classics. According to its statutes, the role of the Institute is to maintain contacts with
institutions both within and outside Stockholm University, and to act autonomously in areas
concerning research, documentation and international relations.
The Vice-Chancellor of Stockholm University appoints the board that governs the work of
the Institute.
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Preface
In 2015, the Institute of Latin American Studies continued its activities focusing on research,
education, documentation and information on Latin America. Throughout the year some
fifteen members of staff, including associated researchers, were engaged in these activities
and in the administration of the Institute. The disciplines represented among staff were
economic history, social and cultural anthropology, political science, media and
communication, economy, sociology, and sociology of law. The Institute has well-established
contacts with several other departments at Stockholm University, apart from its affiliation to
the Department of Romance Studies and Classics.
Educational activities of the Institute continued with individual courses as well as the two
bachelor programs Latin American Studies with specializations in Spanish and Portuguese
(180 credits) and the Master’s Programme in Latin American Studies (120 credits). The
Institute also became responsible for the course Global Markets at the program for Global
Management at Stockholm Business School, and started a joint methods course at the masters
level on area studies, together with the Department of Oriental Studies.
The Institute’s research seminars continued throughout the year, featuring both invited and
the Institute’s own researchers. During the year, the institute continued to admit affiliate
researchers, and twelve persons were granted such status. In addition, the institute continued
to receive several guest researchers.
The public lecture series was continually successful and well attended. The themes of the
lectures were, as always, varied and covered areas such as contemporary politics, religion,
human rights and gender. During the year, the Institute co-arranged a number of events in
order to reach new groups and networks. Co-arranged events took place with ABF, and the
Cervantes Institute among others.
Finally, the members of the institute were frequently called upon by Swedish media to
comment and to explain events and developments in Latin America.
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Board and staff
BOARD
During 2015 there was an ongoing process of appointing new staff.
STAFF
Fredrik Uggla, Director, Professor
Teachers/researchers
Maria Luisa Bartolomei, Associate Professor, Sociology of LawMagnus Lembke, PhD, Political Science
Virginia Melián, PhD, Media and Communication Studies
Enzo Nussio, PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies
Luz Paula Parra, PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies
Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano, Associate Professor, Economic History
Affiliated researchers (from September):
Virgilio Alvarez, PhD, Sociology
Magnus Lembke, PhD, Political Science
Staffan Löfving, Ph. D., Social Anthropology
Thaïs Machado Borges, Associate Professor, Social Anthropology
Virginia Melián, PhD, Media and Communication Studies
Manuela Nilsson, PhD, Peace and Development Studies
Luz Paula Parra, PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies
Asli Postaci, Ph. D., Political Science.
Torsten Wetterblad, Economist
Charlotta Widmark, PhD, Cultural Anthropology
Guest researchers
Luiz Pedone, Professor (February)
Information
Magnus Lembke, PhD, Political Science
Administrative staff
Karin Andersson, Head of Administration
David García, Educational Administrator, Website Administrator
especially for the case of protracted violence. In my research, I
explore diverse cases in order to develop an evidence-based
theory of protracted violence reduction. Where has protracted
violence been reduced? What were the drivers of this
reduction? What role do institutions play in these processes?
These questions will be addressed in a) a fuzzy set qualitative
comparative analysis (fsQCA) of Latin American countries on
both the cross-national and sub-national level; b) a process
tracing study of urban violence reduction in the unlikely
success cases of Bogotá and Recife; c) a field experiment on
the impact of transparent communication on institutional trust
and violence in conflict-affected areas in Colombia; and d) a
quantitative analysis of recidivism among a prototypical agent
of protracted violence—ex-combatants.
Keywords Protracted Violence, Violence Reduction, Latin America,
Trust, Institutions
Status 2015-12-31 Project concluded
Project title REDUCING CRIME WITH HOT SPOTS INFORMATION – A
FIELD EXPERIMENT
Project leader Enzo Nussio, Co-researcher: Ervyn Norza, Universidad de los
Andes
Financing Colombian National Police
Project period 2013-
Summary How can the police reduce crime? A series of studies have
shown that hot spots policing, the focused attention of police
forces on specific high-crime areas, is an effective tool for
crime reduction (Braga, Papachristos, and Hureau 2012).
Arguably, the deterrent effect of police presence prevents
crime in these areas. In this study, we test a novel intervention
that is not based on additional police forces but on
information about police effectiveness. According to Nagin
(2013), deterrence is mostly influenced by the likelihood of
being arrested, and not so much the severity of the
punishment. Our intervention should thus raise the perceived
likelihood of detention without using additional police forces
like classical hot spots policing strategies. Beyond the
contribution to the empirical literature on crime prevention,
our intervention may also provide a low-cost alternative to
actual hot spots policing. The study will be executed in
Bogotá, a city with significant violence reduction over the
past two decades, especially with respect to homicidal
violence (Hoelscher and Nussio 2015), but still large problems
with other forms of crime and widespread high perceptions of
insecurity (Romero 2014).
Keywords Police, crime reduction, hot spots, Colombia, field experiment
Status 2015-12-31 Project in progress
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Project title INSECURITY AS ANOTHER FORM OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC
INEQUALITY: THE CASE OF MEXICO
Project leader Luz Paula Parra-Rosales
Financing LAI
Project period 2015
Summary
The aim of the research is to understand the relationship
between security provision and socio-economic inequality
using the case study of Mexico, particularly the multiple
citizens´ responses, organized and/or disorganized, to deal
with insecurity depending on their socio-economic status.
Keywords Security, Inequality, social justice, urban violence and Mexico
Status 2015-12-31 Project in progress
Project title STUBBORN REGIONALISM: UNDERSTNDING THE
RESILIENCE OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN EUROPE
AND LATIN AMERICA
Project leader Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano
Project period Ongoing
Summary The aim of this project is to understand the historical
resilience of regional integration processes in Europe and
Latin America. There is an established consensus in that
regional integration is a rather new phenomenon, with point
of departure during the second half of the 20th century. Along
this line, the European integration is also regarded as the
dominating norm, in Europe, Latin America, and other parts
of the world. As this project address, current theories on
regional integration falls short of understanding regional
integration due to an Eurocentric and an ahistorical bias,
where the pros and cons behind integration are usually
measured within the framework of current economic or
political contexts. When these are negative, regionalism is
often doomed as feeble and contingent. Hence, current
theories have problems to explain the fact that instead of
disappearing, regionalism has stubbornly remained, showing
remarkable resilience and adaptability to different local
conditions; particularly in Europe and Latin America. The
main task of this project, is to analyse, for the cases of Europe
and Latin America, why this is so? To answer that question,
we turn to a long-term historical perspective and a
comparative approach that shed light to general patterns and
individual particularities.
Status 2015-12-31 Project in progress
Project title BRIDGING LEFT AND RIGHT?: ELECTORAL
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STRATEGIES UNDERLYING THE "LEFTIST TURN" IN
LATIN AMERICA
Project leader Fredrik Uggla
Project period 2012 - ongoing
Summary Various explanations have been offered for the current wave
of electoral victories by leftist candidates in Latin America.
While some observers have stressed socio-economic
conditions, others have pointed to the importance of factors
such as popular discontent with rightist incumbents and with
previous economic policies. The rationale for this project is
that in addition to such underlying factors, the recent
successes of leftist candidates should also be viewed from the
perspective of electoral strategies, and the ability of these
candidates to broaden their electoral appeal to attract large
groups of centrist voters. Thus, the supposed “left turn” in
Latin American politics may also contain a substantial
element of leftist candidates successfully wooing the political
centre. The project studies if and how the campaigns of
successful leftist candidates have managed to simultaneously
attract leftist and centrist parts of the electorate by a mixture
of policy proposals, alliances, and symbolic behaviour. In
doing so, the project aims to develop a database that contains
information on recent electoral campaigns by leftist
candidates in Latin America. Juxtaposing this data with
electoral results, the project aims to test the relative
importance of electoral campaign tactics in accounting for
leftist victories in Latin American elections during the last
decade.
Keywords Elections, Latin America, electoral campaigns, left-right
placement.
Status 2015-12-31 Project in progress
Project title POWER IN BOLIVIA
Project leader Fredrik Uggla
Project period 2015
Summary The Embassy of Sweden commissioned a study of political
actors and institutions as part of its preparations for
elaborating a new cooperation strategy with the country. LAI
cooperated with the research institute Ciudadanía in
Cochabamba and independent researcher Virginia Beramendi
in the performance of the project. The final report from the
project noted several advances in Bolivian democracy, but
also indicated a number of weaknesses, particularly related to
lack of accountability, and power concentration to the inner
spheres of the government.
Keywords Bolivia, democracy, division of powers, accountability.
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Status 2015-12-31 Porject concluded.
Project title MIRADAS LEJANAS: SWEDISH RESEARCH ON LATIN
AMERICA
Project leader Fredrik Uggla and Maria Therese Gustafsson
Project period 2015-2016
Summary CLACSO has asked LAI to prepare a volume that could
present Swedish research on Latin America. It was decided to
do this in the form of presenting eight recent doctoral thesis
relating to Latin America. The volume also contains an
introduction discussing Swedish research on Latin America
and an annex that performs a statistical study on Swedish
doctoral theses on Latin America during the period 2000-
2015, compared to earlier periods.
Keywords Latin America .
Status 2015-12-31 Project in progress
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Research seminars
The Latin American Research Seminar
Coordinator: Fredrik Uggla
January 30 Alberto Naranjo (Universidad de la Sabana)
“The Drug Problem in the Americas”
February 13 Luiz Pedone (UFF Brazil
“Brazil’s strategic relations; defense projects and transfers of
technology with developed countries”.
February 27 Tania Espinoza:
“Nosotras, Roberto Arlt: libertad y terapéutica en las novelas de
Roberto Arlt y la interpretación de Oscar Masotta”
March 27 Staffan Löfving: (Associate researcher, LAI):
“Urbanization and Migration on the Borders of Central America”
April 14 Diego Hernandes Nilson Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
(UFSC), Brasil):
”The discursive construction of Pan Americanism, the
Bolivarianismo
and the South-Americanism in the struggle for hegemony in Latin
America in the early 21st century”
April 22 Leigh Payne (University of Oxford)
Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflict: The case of Colombia
April 24 Matías Barberis Rami (Universidad de Ferrara)
¿Por qué migran los desplazados ambientales?
May 7 Teivo Teivainen (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): Dilemmas of Democracy in Transnational Social Movements: Toward a Global Theory of Non-State Representation
June 15 Asli Postaci (LAI/SUITS associate, Yeditepe University)
“The Making of the Mass Protests in Brazil and Turkey: A
Comparative Approach “
June 16 Marit Ursin Norwegian centre for Child Research (NTNU).
“A synopsis of a longitudinal qualitative study among boys on the
verge of adulthood on the street in urban Brazil.”
September 11 Charlotta Widmark (Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala
University and affiliated researcher at LAI):
“Active Aymara Women Inside and Outside of Parliament”
September 18 David Altman (Universidad Católica, Chile) “Direct Democracy in Latin America: Mechanisms of political control or politically controlled mechanisms?”
September 25 Kalinca Costa Söderlund (School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex) “The Appearance of the MAM-SP on the Brazilian Cultural Map: Looking at the American Modernist Agenda for Brazil, and through Brazil”
October 9 Johanna Söderström (Department of Government, Uppsala
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University):
“The Resilient, the Remobilized and the Removed: Party
Mobilization among Former M19 Combatants”
October 23 Agnes Cornell (Aarhus University):
“Bureaucratic Structures and Democratic Stability in Latin
America”.
November 6 Florencia Enghel (Post-Doctoral Researcher Wahlgrenska &
Helge Ax:son grantee):
Communication and media studies in/about Latin America:
Distinctive tradition, diverse geopolitical and sociocultural object,
or bibliographic common place?
November 20 Bert Hoffmann (senior research fellow at the German Institute of
Global and Area Studies (GIGA))
Bureaucratic Socialism in Reform Mode? The Changing Politics of
Cuba’s post-Fidel Era
December 4 Tania González (Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm
University):
“Familias transnacionales y circulación de los cuidados entre
Bolivia y España. Hacia una etnografía de (y con) los afectos”
December 6 Kenneth Roberts (Cornell University):
“Economic Crises, Populist Reactions, and Partisan De-alignment:
Lessons for Europe from the Latin American Experience”.(co-
seminar with the Department of Political Science)
December 11 Felipe Botero (Universidad de los Andes):
“Institutions and Democracy in Colombia”.
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Other research activities
Brazilian Studies Group
The Brazilian Studies Group (BSG) was established in 2004 at the Institute of Latin
American Studies, Stockholm University. It is a multidisciplinary group of scholars that aims
to co-ordinate advanced research on Brazil across the areas of social sciences and humanities.
Along this line, the intention is to extend and strengthen academic links among scholars all
over the world with an interest on Brazilian issues. The group proposes to encourage these
scholars, intellectuals and policymakers to visit Sweden and present their work here. The
BSG promotes a greater understanding of Brazilian society, history, culture, politics,
economy, ecology, and international relations among Swedish scholars, through seminars,
workshops and conferences.
NOLAN Conference in Helsingfors, June.
LAI arranged joint travel and lodging for the researchers and staff of the institute to the
Nordic Latin American Network conference in Helsingfors, where several of them presented
papers.
Reading group
Enzo Nussio and Staffan Löfving organized a reading group seminar series in the spring
semester and with one seminar in the autumn. A group of ten researchers affiliated to the
Institute gathered on March 6 and 20, April 2 and 17, May 12 and October 16 to discuss
recently published articles in Latin American Studies journals. The aim of the series was to
create a forum for interdisciplinary encounters and at the same time a shared frame of
reference at the very frontline of our discipline.
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Educational activities
The courses at the Institute of Latin American Studies consist of a basic course (Latin
American Studies I), an intermediate course (Latin American Studies II),and a Bachelor’s
Course, all of which are included in the Bachelor’s Programme in Latin American Studies
with specialisations in Spanish and Portuguese and a Master’s Programme.
The Institute’s formal educational activities started in 1992 with a basic course which was
given in cooperation with the Department of Economic History, Stockholm University. Since
then it has been offered every year. The intermediate course started as an experiment during
the academic year 1991/92 and since 2004/05 it has been offered once a year. A bachelor’s
course started in the spring of 2004. All the basic courses are now included in the Bachelor’s
Programmes in Latin American Studies with specializations in Spanish and Portuguese,
respectively. In 2008 a Master’s Programme in Latin American Studies (120 credits) started
and it is now given for the third time. During 2015, LAI started to participate in a joint
network of masters courses in Latin American studies, led by Paris Sorbonne and Salamanca.
Also, LAI together with the Department of Oriental Studies during 2015 started a joint course
on Area Studies as Theory and Method.
Staff from LAI was also responsible for the course Global Markets at the Program of Global
Management, given at the Stockholm Business School.
The courses in Latin American studies are oriented towards students who are seeking in-
depth knowledge of Latin America as well as towards people whose jobs bring them in
contact with Latin America. They are especially suitable for students and teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese, administrators, aid workers, and people employed by Swedish companies
working in Latin America. The aim is to supply basic interdisciplinary knowledge and an
understanding of civic life and political/economic development in Latin America
The courses deal with general historical, political, economic, social and cultural phenomena
as well as processes typical in the development of individual countries. The courses are
taught through lectures and seminars. Examinations are held in connection with the courses.
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Latin American Studies I (30 credits)
Teachers Fredrik Uggla, Magnus Lembke, Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano
Content The course gives an introduction to the historical background
of contemporary social conditions in Latin America.It deals
with the colonial time, the first period of independency and the
20th
century. It focuses on how social structures (class,
ethnicity, gender) have originated and changed over time, how
the idea of citizenship has been formulated and how it is
implemented, the organization of economic production as well
as the changing role of the state.
The course is divided into the following parts which can also
be studied as autonomous courses:
Spring 2015:
Part 1: The History of Latin America, 10 credits
Part 2: Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America, 5 credits
Part 3: Inequalities, Gender and Power in Latin America,
5 credits
Part 4: Globalization and New Strategies for Economic
Development in Latin America, 5 credits
Part 5: Introduction to Social Theory in Latin America, 5
credits
Autumn 2015:
Part 1: The Early History of Latin America, 7,5 credits
Part 2: Latin America from 1900, 7,5 credits
Part 3: Inequalities, Gender and Power in Latin America,
7,5 credits
Part 4: Globalization and New Strategies for Economic
Development in Latin America, 7,5 credits
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Latin American Studies II (30 credits)
Teachers María Luisa Bartolomei, , Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano
Content The aim of the course is to give a deeper knowledge of
four broad topics whose basic configurations have been
formed historically and which have been treated
chronologically in the basic course: culture, social
conditions, economy, and politics.
The course is divided into the following parts which can
also be studied as autonomous courses, except for the
special assignment:
Spring 2015:
Part 1: Latin America in the World, 10 credits
Part 2: Gender in Contemporary Latin America, 10 credits
Part 2: Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America, 10
credits
Part 3: Special assignment/thesis, 10 credits.
Autumn 2015:
Part 1: Latin America in the World, 10 credits
Part 2: Contemporary Latin America, 10 credits
Part 3: Special assignment/thesis, 10 credits.
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Latin American Studies, Bachelor’s course (30 credits)
Teachers Maria Luisa Bartolomei, (course coordinator)
Fredrik Uggla, Enzo Nussio
Supervisor Maria Luisa Bartolomei
Content The course consists of one part which focuses on
interdisciplinary theory and methodology (7.5 credits) and
another part focusing on thematic and regional specialization
(7.5 credits) relating to the exam paper. A reading list is
established and a short paper is written containing an account
of previous research and an annotated bibliography. This part
also gives in-depth knowledge of how to write a scientific
exam paper. In the third part the student carries out a limited
research task which is presented in the candidate exam paper
(15 credits).
Bachelor Program in Latin American Studies with
Specialization in Spanish or Portuguese (180 credits)
Content Latin American Studies I, 30 credits
Latin American Studies II, 30 credits
Spanish/Portuguese for Professional Purposes I, 30 credits
Studies or work practice in another country/optional courses at
a Swedish university, 30 credits
Latin American Studies, Bachelor’s course, 30 credits (exam
paper)
Spanish/Portuguese for Professional Purposes II, 30 credits
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Latin American Studies, Master Program (120 credits)
Teachers Maria Luisa Bartolomei, (program coordinator), Enzo Nussio,
Luz-Paula Parra, Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano, Fredrik Uggla
Content The program provides a deeper understanding of current social
scientific research on Latin America. The relationship between
area studies and interdisciplinary studies is especially
emphasized in the theoretical and methodological module. An
opportunity to stay one semester at a Latin American
university is also offered. The final paper provides an
opportunity for emphasizing thematic and regional issues.
The program includes the following courses:
1. Contemporary Research on Latin America, 15
credits
2. Science and Research Ethics (Faculty of
Humanities), 7,5 credits
3. Theory and methodology, 7,5 credits
4. Regional studies, 15 credits
5. English for Academic Research (Faculty of
Humanities), 7,5 credits
6. Optional course, 7,5 credits
7. Studies, internship or fieldwork in Latin America
or optional courses, 30 credits
8. Independent project, 30 credits
During 2015 the following course was offered, apart from
individual tutoring:
Regional studies, 15 credits
Teachers: María Luisa Bartolomei, Enzo Nussio, Luz Paula
Parra, Andrés Rivarola (course coordinator),
Contemporary Research on Latin America, 15 credits